Date   : Fri, 28 Jun 1996 18:15:53 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Frank Lee <rl201@...>
Subject: Re: More hardware grief

AFAIK you can still buy these plugs from MPS / Maplin Electronics cheaply.
They might sell pins etc separately, but I don't think the whole assembly
is too expensive anyway.

Frank 
(rl201@...)

"A DAT machine is like a little CD player, except it records....
 ... on magnetic tape."

       Trainee Radio Reporter, 'In Touch', BBC Radio 4 28-05-96

On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, steve wrote:

> In his enthusiasm to play Snapper, my son has pulled out two of the wires
> from the black plug which plugs into the Beeb and supplies power to the
> 3.5" Cumana floppy drive.  In removing the pins from the plug (so I can
> reconnect the wires) I have broken one of the pins.  Also, I don't know
> which wire goes where.
> 
> Looking from the back of the floppy drive, the wire on the leftmost pin on
> the connector goes to the pin marked 4 at the Beeb end.  The wires coming
> from the 2nd and 4th pins (the 3rd has no connection) are the ones which
> have come adrift, and I think they go to pins 1 and 3 at the Beeb end -
> but which way round?
> 
> I'm trying to bodge together a replacement for the broken pin, but failing
> that, does anyone know where I can buy either just a new pin, or a new
> complete plug , or even a complete cable?
> -- 
> Steve Loft, Doncaster, UK.
> 
>